Dashboard-pocket.



PATENTED SEPT. a, 1907.

1-1. GLYNN. DASHBOARD POCKET. APPLICATION FILED DEO. 18, 1906.

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GLARRISSA E. GLYNN, OF ALAMOSA, COLORADO.

DASHBOARD-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 1907.

Application filed December 18, 1906. Serial No. 348,478.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARRISSA E. GLYNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alamosa, in the county of Conejos, State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dashboard-Pockets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to pockets detachably supported in front of the dashboard of buggies or other vehicles.

It is the object of my invention to provide improvements in dashboard pockets, whereby the same may be rendered more convenient and commodious than heretofore and whereby also they may be simplified in construction and mode of use.

The nature of the invention is clearly portrayed in the device shown in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in view of which it will be described in detail with respect to its construction and manner of use, and then be pointed out in the subjoined claim.

Of the said drawingsFigure 1 is a front view of my invention showing it attached to the dashboard and supported on its inner side. Fig. 2 is a transverse section, showing the relationship of the flap to the pocket and dashboard. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the means ior detachably securing the pocket to the dashboard.

Similar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings-10 designates the dashboard of a buggy or carriage, having one member, 11, of a buckle in the form of a slotted plate, secured to the upper and lower margins of the dashboard near its ends, the upper members, 11, of the buckling members being attached at their upper edges with their bodies depending, and the lower members 11 being attached at their lower edges with their body portions extending upward.

12 designates the back and 13 the front of the pocket, which is closed at the bottom and sides in any suitable way, the opening to the pocket being along the upper edge, 14, of the front portion 13, which edge may be curved downward and inward from each side, as

shown.

The upper margin of the pocket will have the tongue members 15 of the buckles connected with it by their lower edges, so that the tongues may extend up and be connected with the upper members 11, and at its lower edge the pocket will have tongue members 15 connected with it, in reverse position to the said upper members, so that they can be connected with the lower members 11 of the buckling means.

A strip 16 is secured along a line 1.7, intermediate of its ends, and below the buckling means of the pocket, the portion 18, below the line 17 falling over the opening to the pocket, as a flap or closure, to the mouth of the said pocket, while the portion 19 of the strip 16 is turned forward over the top of the dashboard 10 and left depending from the top thereof, as shown at 20.

If need be the margin of the flap 18 and the forward part 13 of the pocket may be provided with buttonin g means, 21, to keep the flap down over the mouth of the pocket.

The buckling means 11 and 15 may be of the form and construction usually employed on so-called arctic overgaiters, though any other suitable means may be employed for detachably connecting the pocket with the dashb oard By the construction shown not only can the pocket proper be employed for tucking or storing away articles, and protecting them from being misplaced or being damaged by snow and rain, but the space between the back of the pocket and the dashboard may be employed for the purpose as well. The strip or flap 19 turned over in front of the dashboard operates to protect articles from the weather that may be placed behind the pocket.

It is to be noted that the buckling or fastening means at the bottom of the pocket may be dispensed with, the upper fastening devices being sometimes so flicien t.

When the pocket is not needed it can readily be detached, carrying with it the covering flaps.

What is claimed is The combination with the dash-board of a pocket dctaclv ably secured thereto at the ends of its upper edge, a flapstrip secured along its central portion to the pocket below its attaching means with the dashboard, the lower portion of said strip being turned over the mouth of the pocket, as a closure thereto and the upper portion being turned for ward over the top of the dashboard, protecting the space between the back of the pocket and the forward face of the dashboard.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

CLARRISSA E. GLYNN.

Witnesses .T. M. COCHRAN, C. D. GLYNN. 

